Authentication Framework: User Management

In addition to the authentication, the framework manages all kinds of
information belonging to the user. For this reason the framework creates its own
session context called authentication. All information is stored in
this context in an XML structure.

The authentication information (the "authentication" scheme retrieved from
the authentication resource) is stored in this context, so you can retrieve and
change the information using the session transformer and the usual getxml,
setxml etc. commands, so we suggest you to read the session context document.

Note

The authentication context is only available to the
session transformer if the pipeline in which the transformer is
running, is associated with the (authentication) handler. Or putting it in other
words, you have to use the auth-project action in that pipeline.
Otherwise the authentication context is not available.

The path expression is an absolute XPath-like expression where only concrete
nodes and attributes are allowed. The session transformer replaces the tag with
the value of the first node found in the context, this can either be text or
XML.

Setting information in the context

The path is an absolute XPath-like expression where only concrete nodes and
attributes are allowed. If the requested node exists, the framework changes the
value of that node. If the node does not exists, the framework adds it to the
context with the given value.

The tag is removed from the resource before it is passed to the next
component in the pipeline.

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